Reboot or Shutdown from Remote Desktop Connection
If you have ever feel frustrated because you have been unable to reboot a machine from a remote location (using Microsoft’s own RDC), here’s a solution. While I recall having the option to send a Ctrl+Alt+Del to the remote machine that doesn’t seem to be available in most recent versions of the software, or at least not in the obvious places.
So, what you are left with right now is disconnect and log off options. To be able to reboot or shutdown the remote system you can call up the Command Prompt (cmd.exe) or just type the following in XP’s Run or in Vista’s search line that also serves the purpose of launching programs:
“shutdown -f” to shutdown
“shutdown -r -f” to reboot
“shutdown -i -f” to get a GUI
“shutdown -l -f” to logoff
Written by Julio Franco
December 24th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Posted in microsoft, tips & tricks, windows
I don’t recall where I recently read this, but you can try Ctrl+Shift+Esc to get the Task Manager on the remote machine. It worked for me! Another way is to use the remote “Run” box, from the Start menu, and type ‘taskmgr.exe’ (without quotes, of course). For some reason, I’ve found it works more reliably with the ‘.exe’ on the end, but, theoretically, it should work without it.
OzzieH
16 Feb 08 at 10:58 pm
Hi!
A friend of mine (nickname SurZer) made this Java app for me.
Downloadable here:
http://www.banankassen.com/rdcshutdown.jar
You need to have the Java Runtime Environment installed in order to make the app work on a XP machine. Search for “java runtime environment” on Google and you will find some links from where you can download JRE. After that, the previous mentioned app that my friend made ill work.
Njoy :)
StrAngel
3 May 08 at 7:15 pm